Ebooks are wonderful and how I have rediscovered this hobby that people enjoy with a hard book. Ebooks are looking appealing to me at the moment because one can carry thousands of ebooks with them and not be weighted down. I love a hard text – I love filling up my bookshelf and showing off my library of books. I intend to write out a full step-by-step on how-to scan (using OSX) to do what I’m doing, so I will keep you posted.Ī thought about Books, Ebooks, and The ManĮbooks: electronic books. It was relatively quick and pain free due to the fact that I was scanning single pages and not a book, which requires more effort to adjust and hold down on the scanner for best quality output. Today, I scanned my internship’s entire user manual to PDF, which took two hours (that went by quickly while steaming a movie via Netflix). My gripe was mainly lack of annotation features, but I can easily export from this app to other apps that do (e.g. Over the last few months, I have grown to love it for this quality. At first, I did not like this application… it was too simple. I use an iPad application called “GoodReader”, which I bought for 99 cents on the iTunes Store. I lugged around several books that were too thick and from which I only utilized 25% of the information of it at any given time.Īt present time, I am intending to scan many of my readings from text and from readers (a compilation of various reading materials, bound and sold at a 1000% mark-up by the local bookstore for my class) to my hard drive, where they will be run through Adobe Acrobat (for Optical-Character Recognition) and then synced to my iPad. I am doing this paperless challenge due to the fact that I want the mini-roller suitcase (that I lugged around all of last last year) to be reduced to the antique it deserves to be. This includes books books and reading materials.Īny other handouts that I don’t have a digital copy of, will be digitized and most-likely uploaded to Evernote. In scanning my books, this will eliminates my need to highlight (thus depreciate) my textbook (though the binding does take a bit of a whacking).I simply do not want to carry any papers. My process at the moment is to peruse my semester schedule and go through my textbooks and scan each reading assignment, in order, upload them to my hard drive in the sky (iDisk). This is awesome because it saves me the hassle of having to scan all of these papers into my computer. This means that often time, I will receivĮ e-mails with attachments for readings or assignment. I’m looking forward to (attempting) to use my iPad as a machine that eliminates my dependence on as much paper as I can, which means utilization of my scanner and tech skills to make this happen.ĭue to the budget crisis in California, instructors can no longer print lots of handouts for paper. One geek fantasy that I had since iPad was announced was eliminating a certain nightmare:
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